Making Sense Of The Trump-Russia Mess

With this much smoke, must there also be fire?

By Nick Wing and Marc Janks

The beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency has been clouded by an ever-evolving scandal around potential collusion between his campaign and Russia. All told, there are five investigations into the matter, and from what we can tell publicly, none appears close to reaching a conclusion.

The Senate Judiciary Committee spoke with Donald Trump Jr. in September, who told the senators he had met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer in June 2016 at Trump Tower to assess the “fitness” of then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. This was a change from previous explanations about why he agreed to the meeting, which included then-campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. Mueller’s investigation is also looking at the 2016 meeting and the evolving explanations of it.